Symptoms of trachoma in children

Update Date: 2022-03-05 Source: Network

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Trachoma is a very harmful disease to the eyes, mainly caused by Chlamydia trachomatis, and because it is a chronic infectious conjunctival keratitis, it is easy to cause blindness without timely treatment. If children get trachoma, they will not only have discomfort symptoms, but also have a great impact on learning and growth and development? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

Symptoms of trachoma in children

The reason for vision loss is that after the disease develops into the late stage, serious scars will appear on the eyelid conjunctiva. When the eyelashes grow inward and form trichiasis, the eyelashes will continue to rub against the cornea, thus causing corneal opacity and white scars. In the late stage, there will be obvious symptoms such as entropion, trichiasis, corneal ulcer and dry eye, After that, it will directly affect the vision of patients.

Corneal pannus, after the disease gradually worsens, will have eyelid conjunctival vascular congestion, nipple hyperplasia and follicle formation, if serious, it will invade the cornea and cause corneal pannus, after this symptom appears, you can find that there is active pannus on the cornea, and the irritation symptom is also more significant, Even the eyes will have pain symptoms, when the eyelids turn over, there will be small white spots.

Eye discomfort, mainly refers to the patient in the initial infection of microbial Chlamydia trachomatis, there will be varying degrees of fear of light, tears and secretions increased symptoms, if serious, there will be itching and foreign body sensation symptoms, once these symptoms occur, patients should pay high attention to it.

matters needing attention

Primary health care workers, school health teachers and parents should learn to master the knowledge of trachoma infection and improve their awareness and ability of prevention. Educate children to develop the habit of loving cleanliness and stressing hygiene. They should not wipe their eyes with dirty hands or unclean things.